Role Of English Language In Malaysia

Introduction.

English is a language that plays a major role in our social fabric of life. Apparently, this language is a West – Germanic Language of Indo European language family . It originated from England . It had been derived by the invaders from German that invade the Great Britain years back then. As the time evolve the language is flourishing to another country with their own history .

2.1 Philippines

The Philippines is one of the countries that undergo English Language revolution through a war . However, Philippines was not the main character. It was between Spain and America. The Philippines was involved with this war because, according to Andy

This because the English language was introduced by the British Empire during the colonization era. The learning of English language in Malaysia began during the colonial times as a tool of socio-economic mobility and education enhancement. Malaysia was under the British rule from the late eighteenth until the mid-twentieth centuries. The colonization included both Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak). However, post independence, the role of the English language in Malaysia has expanded as a medium of international socio-political correspondence and involvement, but as medium of interaction and knowledge exchange as

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Moreover, apart from that, British saw the requirement for “English educated non-European” because the inhabitants in Tanah Melayu during that era were functioned as workers in sector of infrastructure as clerks, interpreters, agents and lower rank officers. Within that time, English language worked for transport, commerce, mass media and films for entertainment. When the Federation of Malaya got its independence in 1957, Malay was adopted as the national language, however, English Language is not discarded.

3. Conclusion In conclusion, English language derived with different ways for each country. But after all the hard times we had to struggle, there was one day, we would realize the beneficial of the issue. From the history of both countries, we know that English Language brings a lot of great outcomes for us today. Plus we are used to use English as a universal language and has been using it almost in all sectors especially in educational and trading fields nowadays. Here we can tell that the English language play a major role in our social fabric of life. We even can see during the British colonized Tanah Melayu before known as Malaysia, that English was already